Bank of New York & Trust Co. v. Hamersley

Plaintiff, as trustee under the will of John W. Hamersley, seeks an interlocutory judgment in this action for an accounting which shall construe the 8th clause of the will. There testator bequeathed one-fourth of his personalty to plaintiff’s predecessor in trust for his daughter, Virginia H. Field, for life with remainder to her issue her surviving, and further provided *732“ * * * and if no such issue survive her, then I give the said two-eighths shares (or one-fourth) to my son James Hooker and daughter Helen Reade Hamersley or the survivor of them, provided that if either or both of them be…